2008 Boo Shooting Diary

[bambookid524]

I dug some of the new shoots today to see what was going on with the rhizomes and almost half of the aureosulcata shoots were whip shoots.

[foxd]

foxd,
If the R.Y. you're referencing is a piece from what I sent to IN, it sent out shoots on and off almost all year. For every whipshoot there would be one or two smaller normal shoots.

If you sent them to needmore, then it is from that batch. It was top killed last winter and put up shoots that topped out at two foot tall. The six foot (and growing) whipshoot was a complete surprise.

BTW, I didn't get the camera shot lined up very well, but here is a picture of the Melocanna baccifera that I have been nursing along. It recently put up a new shoot.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/271 ... a3.jpg?v=0

[mantis]

7-29-08 Bambusa sp. 'Nana'

edit: also Bambusa sp. 'Richard Waldron'
and Otatea acuminata ssp. Aztecorum

[fredgpops]

N. Cal - Bambusa malingenisis. Rgds

[JeffreyDV]

Potted B. Oldhamii

[mr.mike]

West Central Fla.

Bambusa tulda

Guadua ang, Bi-color


Giddyup!

Mike

[mr.mike]

West Central Fla.

Bambusa Lako..............Finally!

ALSO... D. sp. unknown from Hawaii.

Giddyup

Mike

[bepah]

2 year old B. v. 'Wamin' on August 4th 3/4" diam, 3 days after mulching with compost and fertilizing with 9-3-9

Northern Cailfornia

[Roy]

I've got these 3 coming up now:

Bambusa cornigera 35 FT X 2.5 IN 22 DEG 3
Bambusa dolichomerithalla 'Green Stripe' 35 FT X 2.0 IN 22 DEG 5
Bambusa dolichomerithalla 'Silverstripe' 35 FT X 2.0 IN 22 DEG 6

[mr.mike]

West Central Fla.

Bambusa membranacea

Bambusa tulda

Mike

[Roy]

Finally got 3 new shoots on my Gigantochloa atroviolacea poking their little tips out of the ground. B. lako still hasn't put up anything yet.

[mr.mike]

Roy, my Lako just started to shoot a few days ago. Hang in there, they're coming.

Still nothing from Parker Giant, or my Guadua's either.

I almost forgot... The B. beachyana Pubescens just started to shoot today!

Giddyup!

Mike

[foxd]

The "Robert Young" shoot looks to have topped out about seven foot tall. The P. aurea and P. aurea 'Holochrysa' shoots have topped out about eight feet tall. The 'Holochrysa' has now put up an even larger shoot.

Pleioblastus viridistriatus 'Chrysophyllus' also seems to be putting out larger than normal shoots. Shoots have normally stayed two foot or under, but pretty much the same size. These look to be three foot or better and certainly stand out from the group.

Very odd shooting and growing season this year.

[marcat]

Still waiting on my in ground 'Painted' to shoot, it is on of the few that get plenty of water in my desert oasis but it just won't shoot. I am hopeing that means it is just takeing longer makeing big shoots. All of the potted painted have several shoots and are ready to divide.
MarCat

[mr.mike]

My B. textilis "Kanapaha" is just starting to shoot as is my B. textilis Mutabilis 'Emerald'.
Hmmmmm, what a co-inky-dink, eh Roy?!?!

Giddyup!

Mike